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The relationship between political parties and pressure groups can take different forms:
a. Some pressure groups can have political ministers as their leaders. The ministers from one party could try to affect the policies of another party by forming a pressure group.
b. Political parties participate in trade unions and studentsтАЩ unions, either as a host or by mobilising support for such unions to fight against their rival parties.
c. Movements for a cause can end up being a pressure group in various cases. An example of such a pressure group would be the Assam students movement that later became Asom Gana Parishad.
d. They have an indirect relationship too, where they are in dialogue and negotiation.